My granddaughter 7months old, wanted my #mobile since she heard it casting #sounds and sometimes her mother’s voice. #Children today, they all want to #play with #mobiles and use #I-pads, from age 7 month till they become 70 years old.

It is the #age of #digital_media and people all the same, like to #discover something new and changeable like #pictures, #animation and #games. Nobody nowadays appreciates #reading, with all its #benefits.

How to help children learn through reading and not only through #media alone?

I think, #pictorial stories are encouraging children especially preteens, to hold a #book as a first step and secondly read and watch the pictures therein with all it says, about the scenario. Balloons in comics may be the only place where you first lay your vision to read, even skipping what is written in the rectangular captions on top or in the bottom of the page. The tendency is to read the dialogue, which is uttered from the character in the #picture, while description of the #scene is well explained in the #drawing.

Wouldn’t this be a good approach to encourage children to #read more?

What about the content? That is quite a story nowadays, where many frightening characters are created in cartoons, whether it is a book or a video animation.

Empty and destroying stories are being narrated sometimes, maybe well selling, because children, especially boys like aggression and battlefields. We all do sometimes. But if there is no alternative to attract children and indirectly teach them about good character, no wonder why we find a complete generation full of deceivers and conscienceless people.

What could be the best stories to tell children about, and in an attractive way? The #Bible tells us about #characters, living in a world not much different than ours, events that are most controversial where you find #tension, #danger, #aggressiveness, still you will #read about #love and #compassion, #intimacy and #care, in the best #scenario ever told. I am focusing on the #New_Testament, where you find all we mentioned, without any #dramatic_death or #killing without a #glorious result, except the death of Judah Iscariot.